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The Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants (SCC4) opportunity is a Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (ETA) discretionary grant program designed to help public community colleges expand and modernize their ability to train workers for good jobs in in-demand industries. The central aim is to make community colleges more responsive to real-time employer skill needs while also improving how colleges support students, especially those who have historically faced barriers to education and employment. SCC4 emphasizes sector-based career pathways approaches, meaning training and credential programs should be organized around specific industry sectors and clearly connect education and training to hiring and advancement opportunities. Projects are expected to rely on strategies grounded in existing evidence and, importantly, to contribute to building stronger evidence about what works in improving employment outcomes.
A key feature of SCC4 is its dual focus on workforce impact and equity. Applicants are expected not only to increase job placement and employment-related outcomes, but also to identify and address equity gaps that limit full access to training and economic opportunity. The grant encourages applicants to think concretely about who is being left out or underserved and to design program elements that improve access, persistence, completion, and employment outcomes for those groups. The opportunity specifically calls attention to supporting individuals from historically underserved communities and ties this to the broader goal of connecting participants to good jobs, not just short-term training.
Eligibility and partnership structure are central to the program design. The lead applicant must be a public community college as defined under Section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act, and it must be an institution where the associate degree is primarily the highest degree awarded. A lead college can apply on its own or as part of a consortium of two or more colleges operating within a common labor market area. Consortium members can include other community colleges as well as public or private nonprofit four-year institutions that meet the same Higher Education Act definition. Prior SCC awardees from earlier rounds are not automatically excluded; they may apply again as either leads or consortium members under SCC4, but only if they propose work in a different industry sector than the one funded previously.
The program requires strong, formal collaboration with the labor market. Employers and the public workforce development system are required partners for every project, reflecting the program’s goal of aligning training to actual hiring demand and ensuring participants can connect to employment services and labor market resources. Each project must also include a sector convener partner, unless the lead institution or another partner is already serving that function. The intent here is to ensure coordination across the sector, such as bringing together multiple employers, intermediaries, and training providers to align on skill standards, credentials, work-based learning, and hiring pipelines. In addition, partnerships with unions or labor-management organizations are encouraged to support job quality and connections to good jobs. The program also encourages partnerships with community-based organizations, adult education providers, and tribal entities when relevant, especially where those partners can improve outreach, navigation, supportive services, and equitable employment outcomes.
From an administrative standpoint, this opportunity is listed as Funding Opportunity Announcement FOA ETA 23 15 under CFDA number 17.261, in the Employment, Labor and Training activity category. The award ceiling is $5,750,000 per grant, with an anticipated 17 awards. Eligible applicants include public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, along with other eligible entities as described in the full eligibility language. Applications were required to be submitted electronically by 11:59 pm Eastern Time on the original closing date of November 14, 2023. For questions, ETA provided the contact email SCC4FOA-ETA-23-15@dol.gov, and prospective applicants were encouraged to use the Grants.gov subscription feature to receive updates tied to this specific FOA.Apply for FOA ETA 23 15
- The Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration in the employment, labor and training sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 17.261.
- This funding opportunity was created on Aug 17, 2023.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Nov 14, 2023 Applications must be submitted electronically no later than 1159 pm Eastern Time.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $5,750,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 17 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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